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RUGBY LEAGUE NATION
CANADIAN RUGBY LEAGUE NATION OVERVIEW

Foundation Year - 1987

International Team - Canadian Rugby League

Highest finish in World Cup - One win Emerging Nations World Cup (2000)

Top level domestic competition - There is currently no domestic rugby league competition. In the 80's and 90's a 4 team competition existed.

History - Rugby League started up in Canada in the late 1980's. Mainly based around Ontario at one stage Canada had three teams in a competition known as the Tri-Country Rugby League. The competition included one team from the United States. By the mid 90's leading into the 2000 emerging nations, their was an eight team competition based around Ontario.

In 2000 Canada took part in the Emerging Nations World Cup.The ENWC was played along side the main World Cup competition. Canada were handed heavy defeats by the United States and Italy. They only managed to win one game against Japan and returned home needing to improve the development of the sport in Canada.

Besides a few one off 9's and 7's competitions, rugby league has not managed to maintain a permanent foothold in Canada since the 2000 ENWC. It is hoped that this will change in the near future with a Canadian team entering the successful American NRL competition.

In early 2010 expats living in Toronto Ontario have been in contact with the AMNRL and have started a facebook group to gauge Canadian interest in the start-up of rugby league in Canada again. In April 2010 Canada Rugby League launch their new website. Their are plans to enter a team in the "War on the Shore" competition held in the US each year.

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